Tag: Faculty

Tomorrow is EduTech Day at FIT and we are ready to go! The Great hall was set up today, lighting is moody (in a good way) and the presentations are race ready. We have unbelievable faculty and student presentations throughout the day and sponsors including Herman Miller, Adobe, Apple, Cisco. An Administrative panel discussing their […]

You’ve recorded an interview using your consumer camcorder. Looks fine, but the audio sounds awful….in fact it’s unusable…you can’t hear anything your interviewee is saying. Whats the answer? Connect a “proper” microphone to your Camcorder and record the audio using that. There’s a catch, though. Most microphones hook up to recording equipment using a balanced […]

Have a large PDF document you’d like to create a table of contents for? Well today’s you’re lucky day, here’s the how to tutorial: If the video size is too small to follow in this blog post, direct link here.

This little workflow is a life saver, and something I couldn’t really live without at FIT. As you may (or may not know) attaching large files (those that are bigger than 10MB) is not possible using our FIT email system. Well using our Document Management system (Webfiles) you can! By creating what’s called a “Ticket” […]

With the recent release of WordPress blogs at FIT the buzz is all about and I have received lots of questions of how a blog is really different from a website, or a wiki. I am a huge fan of the “Plain English” videos so please allow me to present Common Craft’s, Blogs In Plain […]

It may sound like quibbling but there is a difference between resetting your password and changing your password. When you reset your password you are setting it back to the initial password (the first one you ever got at FIT) which is your date of birth in the default format of MmmDDYYYY example Jan031979. Keeping […]

ASK IT form questions & comments: Im an adjunct faculty member and my FIT e-mail is forwarded to my personal e-mail address. I am not teaching this semester, can I change the settings so that I receive the forwarded mail as a digest? Or can I temporarily unsubscribe from general college messages? Answer: Thanks for […]

ASK IT form questions & comments: Hello. I wanted to download Sophos Security to protect my computer from viruses. However, I couldn’t download it. Could you explain how to connect to the program? They said my username or password is incorrect. I used the same username and password as I log in MYFIT. My computer […]

ASK IT form questions & comments: The mouthpiece on my office telephone no longer transmits my voice well. I sound so distant that often people cannot hear me. It’s not a hardware problem — I tried swapping hand pieces and the problem was still there. The problem is probably about two weeks old and seems […]